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Why use a swather ?!!!!!!

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Dave Sherburne,

08-07-2005 15:28:57




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I lived i Wi for a while and the guy I worked for
used a swather. Why?? In NY, Oats etc. are combined and only low enough to get the grain.
Why use a swather, and run all the stalk weeds grass and new seeding thru the combine?? Seems
like a lot of unnecessary wear and tear on an
expensive machine. After the combine finishes,
if we want the straw or whatever, it is mowed with
a haybine, allowed to dry throughly, and baled
If you are swathing it to get the grain to dry the stuff on the bottom doesn't dry anyway. I JUST DON'T GET IT.

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Don-Wi

08-07-2005 19:50:29




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 Re: Why use a swather ?!!!!!! in reply to Dave Sherburne,NY, 08-07-2005 15:28:57  
we use a swather because the custom guy couldn't get here quick enough, and the weeds outgrew the oats, and lots of it was knocked down. The last 2 years they did it standing, but with the weeds that came through and the alfalfa, they snapped a belt the first year and had troubles last year as well. Cut it 2 days before the combine, and the weeds wilt enought to not cause troubles, and we also need the straw, so just clipping the heads doesn't do it for us, and then it gets run down and chokes out the new seeding. That sort of thing happens when the oats grows 3-4' tall, no kidding there either. The haybine doesn't pick it up if it's smashed to the ground.

The guy w/ the combine wants us to swath it, it's ALOT easier on his machine than snapping belts that sure aint paid for by doing our small feilds. Only charges $100-150 to run it, put it in their boom truck and right into our grain bin, we don't have to touch it at all.
Donovan from Wisconsin

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